Three Plays

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREMario Vargas Llosa the internationally acclaimed novelist and a cultural and political figure in Peru explores the complexities of Peruvian society and the writer''s imagination in three dramas.. In The Young Lady from Tacina history and fiction collide in a 100-year-old woman known as Mamae as her grand nephew attempts to turn the rich but contradictory stories of her life into a single narrative.. In Kathie and the Hippopotamus a banker''s wife recounts her travel adventures to a writer but as he embellishes the tales with his own style and tastes they transform into something altogether new and unexpected.. Finally in La Chunga the regulars in a small-town bar trade speculations about what happened between the bar’s female owner a local pimp and their shared object of desire who has disappeared.. Vargas Llorca introduces each play with a foreword that helps to place the action in context.